About finpunk

Zen Co-Founder and Core Team member. Rob is a former physicist, mercenary mathematician, and military officer with experience in satellite radar, space launch vehicles, and combat support intelligence. He’s currently a PhD Candidate in finance @UofSC researching cryptofinance and teaching “Bitcoin & Blockchain Applications in Finance.
Rob holds an MBA in Finance & Marketing and the PMP certification. He is a passionate libertarian who advocates peace, freedom, and respect for individual life.

ZenCash Partners with IOHK for R&D Projects Rosario already wrote a great article yesterday about how ZenCash and IOHK R&D Partner, so check that out for more detail. Here’s a video we made last week describing the partnership, why we think it’s such a big deal, and how it feeds in perfectly to our three […]

Privacy is important to us at ZenCash, so now that we’re integrated into CoinPayments, our mission is to ensure that our users can pay for their favorite privacy services directly with ZEN. This is why we’re so happy to announce that TorGuard has added ZenCash as a payment option for its anonymous VPN, proxy, and […]

ZenCash (ZEN) was just listed on Singapore exchange and fintech innovator coss.io! Here are some reasons why this is so exciting: Fiat Gateway Coss.io operates a payment gateway, which means users can deposit and withdraw a growing set of fiat currencies, including EUR, USD, Singapore Dollar (SGD), Malaysian Ringit, Korean Won, and Romanian Leu, but many other […]

Since the last ZenCash livestream was so much fun and productive, we’re setting these up to run on a regular biweekly schedule starting this Wednesdays at 1pm EDT. Like last time, we’ll hold the voice call on Discord and stream it live on YouTube. Our team is growing wonderfully, community engagement is jumping, and we […]

There’s been so much going on behind the scenes with ZenCash that it’s time we set up regular community meetings to keep everyone informed. The plan is to start doing these every other week, the first one starting this Wednesday at 12:00 EDT. We’ll be hosting the meeting on Discord and streaming live on YouTube. […]

Software updates that have been in testing since July 9th are now ready to be activated via hard fork this Friday at block 139,200 ~14:00 EDT (18:00 UTC). To recap, here’s what’s changing: Bug fixes on P2SH multisig addresses to make them compatible with replay protection. Upping the community funding to 12% of block rewards, adding […]

One of the biggest challenges in doing a chain split is to protect against replay attacks, which are transactions on one chain being maliciously or fraudulently replayed on another blockchain. Blockchain splits leave two chains that are similar enough to each other to face this issue. ZenCash (ZEN) suffered 26 replayed transactions within the range […]

There’s been a lot going on and now we have a bundle of updates packaged into a hard fork for testing this week. Here’s what’s included: Bug fixes on P2SH multisig addresses to make them compatible with replay protection. Upping the community funding to 12% of block rewards, adding the 3.5% secure node rewards to […]

While things have seemed relatively quiet for the last couple weeks, we’ve been working hard in the background structuring the organization and reorganizing the team. What we have now is much stronger than what we had when we launched about a month ago, and what we have in the pipeline is even more exciting. Zen […]